I remember reading the first book in high school, voicing my discomfort with the pedophilia and rape and saying it was a little bit too detailed only to be lectured that I was being a prude
Then don't partake in the media consumption ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just don't confuse it for meaningful politics or praxis, its literally just media consumption (even if you abstain for moral or ideological reasons).
It gets tiring to have to see on a weekly basis pretty meaningless conversations about "popular thing bad" when the now weekly circlejerks about Gambo Thrones or Avengers comes up, acting as if the abstinence of certain media is somehow in it of itself a form of praxis.
Its on the same level as a Lib bragging about how they don't partake in conservative Christian films....like cool I guess?
Thank you for making me feel less alone on this one. Despite playing a lot of violent video games when I was younger, I can't really handle any violent media now. It just makes me really upset and grossed out. So many people get frustrated with me when I tell them I don't really like to watch shows because watching (sexual) violence makes me uncomfortable.
At the same time, I think it's important to be compassionate about people's starting points. We live in a society that simultaneously hyper-normalizes violence and displays of violence while also promoting this idea of consuming edgy and (sexually) violent media as radical or subversive. It also promotes media-consumption-as-identity-formation. For me, realizing this lets me take people's kneejerk reactions less personally. Sorry a bit rambly.
Yeah I know what you mean I think. I tend to think that I'd rather feudal society (esp nobility) not be whitewashed and be presented with all the fucked up horrible shit that they got up to for sure. I get that, and for the first few books before it becomes a sorta convoluted farting about worldbuilding exercise it does that fairly well.
However what I don't really enjoy about the tv show and to a degree the books is the sheer depth of detail it goes into with such scenes and how the tv show definately leans into turning those scenes into wank material.
I remember reading the first book in high school, voicing my discomfort with the pedophilia and rape and saying it was a little bit too detailed only to be lectured that I was being a prude
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I mean it is entirely possible to be both a joyless scold and also entirely correct.
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Then don't partake in the media consumption ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just don't confuse it for meaningful politics or praxis, its literally just media consumption (even if you abstain for moral or ideological reasons).
It gets tiring to have to see on a weekly basis pretty meaningless conversations about "popular thing bad" when the now weekly circlejerks about Gambo Thrones or Avengers comes up, acting as if the abstinence of certain media is somehow in it of itself a form of praxis.
Its on the same level as a Lib bragging about how they don't partake in conservative Christian films....like cool I guess?
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I have no idea what you are going on about but you are spending far too much time malding over treats than is healthy.
Disengaging now.
Thank you for making me feel less alone on this one. Despite playing a lot of violent video games when I was younger, I can't really handle any violent media now. It just makes me really upset and grossed out. So many people get frustrated with me when I tell them I don't really like to watch shows because watching (sexual) violence makes me uncomfortable.
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At the same time, I think it's important to be compassionate about people's starting points. We live in a society that simultaneously hyper-normalizes violence and displays of violence while also promoting this idea of consuming edgy and (sexually) violent media as radical or subversive. It also promotes media-consumption-as-identity-formation. For me, realizing this lets me take people's kneejerk reactions less personally. Sorry a bit rambly.
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Yeah I know what you mean I think. I tend to think that I'd rather feudal society (esp nobility) not be whitewashed and be presented with all the fucked up horrible shit that they got up to for sure. I get that, and for the first few books before it becomes a sorta convoluted farting about worldbuilding exercise it does that fairly well.
However what I don't really enjoy about the tv show and to a degree the books is the sheer depth of detail it goes into with such scenes and how the tv show definately leans into turning those scenes into wank material.
kind of like the The Boyz. The very first episode contains a sexual assault scene that felt gratuitous.
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